Muslim Geographies: current trends and future

directions

Peter Hopkins

School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University UK NE17RUpeter.hopkins@ncl.ac.uk

Residential segregation …

Cultural geographies of the city

Gender relations and identities

Critical geopolitics and everyday lives

Households, families and relationships

• What about the economic and cultural management of Muslim homespaces?

• What about Islamic intergenerational relations, Muslim lifecourses and Muslim parenting?

• What are the emotional geographies of Muslim family life?

Nations, regions and territories

• What about connections between different territories in terms of religious identities, experiences of migration, and accounts of resettlement.

• What about national or regional variations in the practice of Islam and the experiences of Muslims?

• Influence of national/regional government policy and processes of normalisation?

Intersections, interactions and inequalities

• What about the intersectionality of Muslim identities with other social identities?

• What might a geography of inter-faith studies look like?

• What are the geographical inequalities experienced by Muslims in different places at different times?

Researching Muslim Geographies

• What about the possibilities offered by mixed methods (particularly involving quantitative and qualitative work)?

• What might participatory action research approaches and methods (Kindon, Pain and Kesby, 2007) add to Muslim Geographies?

• What are the ethics of doing Muslim Geographies?

Muslim Geographies: current trends and future

directions

Peter Hopkins

School of Geography, Politics and SociologyNewcastle University UK NE17RUpeter.hopkins@ncl.ac.uk